How to get employees to submit time tracking on time
When a key employee chronically delays turning in weekly project hours, billing gets held up for weeks at a time. Chasing down missing records creates constant administrative friction and stress for managers who rely on timely data to run the business.
What people tried
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How to get employees to submit time tracking on time
- 1Writing down what projects he is working on each day to help him rememberDid this help you?
- 2Having multiple conversationsDid this help you?
- 3Considering holding or delaying a paycheckDid this help you?
- 4Using expense software like Tallie, Concur, Microix, or Ramp to track and sync expensesDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Does anyone have suggestions on software to get employees receipts? This is the companies biggest struggle as workers are all over the country.”source ↗
“My biggest problem and a huge problem for the business and my own mental health is that this employee is required to turn in his hours (how many hours he spent on each job) every week so I can bill.”source ↗
“He’s the only one who I have to chase around to get them.”source ↗
“So many times he has put it off so long that he doesn’t turn them in for up to 2-3 weeks.”source ↗
“I’m at my wits end.”source ↗
Where this came up
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